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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 20

T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, M r . Grady, Mr. Sobotka, Miss Wyncott; no, none. O n motion of M r . Lenz, authority was given as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. H a h n , Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, M r . Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone, M r . Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. Requests for Operating and Capital Appropriations, FY 1981

(3) As president of the University of Illinois I submit herewith requests for incremental operating funds, for new capital appropriations, and for new appropriations for the Food Production Research Program (Food for Century I I I ) for FY 1981, as shown in the following tables. (Copies of the complete budget documents are filed with the secretary of the board for record.) T h e request for incremental operating funds for FY 1981 totals $40,445,400, and comprises the programs outlined in Tables 1 and 2. This request differs slightly from the "median alternative" presented to the Board of Trustees on July 17.' The differences are due to technical changes involving price and utilities increases and additions to the Library Computer System and Cooperative Extension Service requests. In addition to the amounts shown in Table 1, a request for $24,654,500 for the statutory increment for retirement funding for FY 1981 is also included in the University's request. The FY 1981 request for new capital appropriations has two major components: (1) requests for "regular" capital projects, which total $42,318,400 as shown in Table 5 ; and (2) requests for energy-related projects which include alternative energy resource projects totaling $12,634,600, as shown in Table 3, and energy conservation projects which total $12,387,173, as shown in Table 6. The regular capital budget request differs from that presented to the Board of Trustees in July, in that cost estimates for most projects have been revised to reflect new Illinois Board of Higher Education procedures. Energy projects have been separated into fuel conversion and energy conservation categories. Cost estimates have been revised as in the case of the "regular" projects, and some additional refinements have been made in the calculation of project paybacks for conservation projects. Finally, the FY 1981 request for new capital appropriations for the Food Production Research Program is shown in Table 4. This request has been altered from that presented in July to take into account final action on the FY 1980 appropriations for Food for Century I I I . These requests have been prepared by the vice president for administration, based upon recommendations of the University Planning Council, 2 the chancellors of the three campuses, and the president of the University. Note: Establishment at the Chicago Circle campus of the Centers for Private Enterprise, Languages and Writing, and Quantum Electronics, and the Institute

1 In May and June 1979 the Board of Trustees, meeting as a Committee of the Whole, received and evaluated reports on the background and needs aspects of the budget; and in July evaluated and discussed the budget request in preliminary form. 2 Members of the University Planning Council which reviewed and recommended these requests are as follows: Ronald W. Brady, vice president for administration, chairman; Harlan D. Bareither, associate vice president for planning, secretary; Werner H . Baur, professor and head of Department of Geological Sciences and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chicago Circle; David W. Bonham, vice chancellor for administrative services, Medical Center; Edwin J. Goldwasser, dean of the Graduate College, vice chancellor for research, and acting vice chancellor for academic affairs, Urbana; William J. Grove, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Medical Center; Richard M. Johnson, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Chicago Circle; Walter W. McMahon, professor of economics _ and of education, Urbana; Alexander M. Schmidt, vice chancellor for health services, Medical Center; Charlene Snelling, bibliographer and instructor in the Library of Health Sciences, Medical Center; Richard H. Ward, vice chancellor for administration, Chicago Circle^ Donald F. Wendel, vice chancellor for administrative affairs. Urbana; and Peter E. Yankwich, vice president for academic affairs.